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Q: Science fiction TV show from the late 1990s or early 2000s. A group was on a planet with a food processor that gives same food, tastes

user169595I saw this on a sci-fi tv station . The food the machine gave out was the same orange looking fruit slice. But when different people ate the alien food, it tasted like what they were craving for. A food that can taste like your desire.

 
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Q: Young Cylander stows away to visit Earth

Pastychomper thanks MonicaThis is a novella or novel I read in the 90s. The main character was a teen who had spent his life on a large orbital space station. The station was known as Cyland (not sure about the spelling) because it was cylindrical in shape, and its inhabitants were referred to as Cylanders. There might ha...

 
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Q: Looking for a fantasy novel I read in 1993 when I was a kid. It was set in Viking like society with raids, had swords and a rite of passage

user169595What i remember most of the novel is the 3 friends who have to pass a physical rite of passage. One of the friends like a physical disability such as a haunched back which prevented him from jumping over a crevice in the test but the other two friends helped him jump the crevice together. One of ...

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I'll take "first instance of" questions all day long over questions about gamified fiction where the characters have stats.
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@Spencer For sure! I don't know where that whole idea came from, or why it's popular, but it just leaves me completely cold.
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Q: A fantasy short fiction by Asimov

AlfredI read that story (possibly shortish novelette rather than technically "short story") at least 40 years ago. A writer got rather successful with a series of murder mysteries with the same sleuth, a very effective but also extremely pretentious, even odious, character. To the former's dismay, his ...

 
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Q: Early 2000s series with police unit catching supernatural creatures. Main character reveals invisible monster in an episode and says "nice to see you"

ClockworkThis was a live action TV series; I think from the early 2000s. The story was about a special police unit force, which was tasked to capture supernatural creatures. The creatures were mostly related to folklores, but some of them were just plain sci-fi monsters too, such as: sandman, bogeyman, va...

 
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Q: 80s/90s Anime film I had on VHS

Adrian KnottI’m trying to find an anime film I had when I was younger it would 90s maybe late 80s I can only remember one scene which is a young boy riding a Pegasus and he shouts Pegasus energise Pegasus fire and it turns into a weapon and blows snoring that was attacking a spacecraft/aircraft and the boy ...

 
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Q: Help me find out the name of the movie plssss

rinaThe main problem is that I remember this movie very poorly. I clearly remember the moment that the boy went fishing, but there was some kind of magic and all the fish suddenly appeared above the lake, something like that was there. I understand that this knowledge is very little to find, but that...

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@DavidW so long as we don't start policing questions based on how interesting we find them, I don't mind them at all
@DavidW see, I'd be fascinated if it turned out that it was pre 21st century
@Spencer I just think that's a matter of familiarity
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@AncientSwordRage I don't "police" much other than spam/RA and blatant NaA. I will sometimes snark at a poorly formulated post from someone who should know better (i.e. >20k rep), but since I have no official capacity...
Actually, more recently I've started bringing my snark at questions here, instead of leaving them on the question itself.
@DavidW yeah I think for all the grumbles of Isekai and Drarry, we're a fairly chilled out bunch
Other stacks maybe less so
It is maybe a bit concerning that you have to scroll back to the 15th new question to find one that's not story-ID, though.
@Mithical I feel like it's a lack of other questions than an influx of story-id
@AncientSwordRage Arguably that's what downvotes are for, though
@Mithical That's even more of a problem for manga/manhwa/etc. I can't remember the last time there was a question about that which wasn't an ID question
@Laurel ehhh downvotes are more personal
I don't like the idea of downvoting stuff just cos it's not to my taste
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Q: What real-world island did the Telmarines land on that took them to the Narnia world?

LeoValdezSo this is all the information given by Aslan about this island: Many years ago in that world, in a deep sea of that world which is called the South Sea, a shipload of pirates was driven by storm on an island. So it’s in the South Sea, which is the portion of the Pacific Ocean on the south of t...

@AncientSwordRage Yeah… a while back I was looking at questions and it just seemed like you couldn't ask a story-ID featuring a gay relationship without being downvoted, which I found disturbing. Though for some of those questions, it's possible that the downvotes were for other distasteful facets of the story or something
@Laurel Hmm... I don't know about gay relationships in general (I don't know what to search for) but the last few BL questions have all been manga-id questions that are only barely on-topic; those would collect a few downvotes regardless.
@Marvin Mith left just before this one popped up...
@AncientSwordRage Heh. I don't see drarry, so it's Someone Else's Problem.
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@Mithical There you go, now there are 2 non story-id questions at the very top.
I see we're having an echo of the summer's community bumping blitz.
So far we haven't gone over 5/15 though, and it's mostly hanging around 4, so it's not as bad this time.
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Q: Continuity errors in "Callahan's Con" (by Spider Robinson)

AndrewI was thinking about Robinson's Callahan's Con the other day, and remembering some continuity errors in the book that vexed me (I don't have an electronic version to search through, so forgive my lack of lengthy quotes): Example 1: Field Agent Czrjghnczl gives Jake her cellphone on page 201, Jake...

@DavidW A marked improvement :P

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